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A plan to rescue stranded satellites has been developed.

A new way of doing microscopic origami has been developed.

We tend to think that planning ahead is a purely human activity, but the antics of a chimp called Santino in Furuvik...

A way in which each of a pair of chromosomes can identify its opposite equivalent has been unravelled by scientists in...

Scientists have discovered the first example of an ant-plant tag-team that works together to provide food for both.

We tend to think that planning ahead is a purely human activity, but the antics of a chimp called Santino in Furuvik...

New studies published in the journal Nature Genetics have shed light on the genes involved in Alzheimer’s disease and...

An international team of researchers have made an important step forward in understanding how nature and nurture work...

A paper from Swedish researchers in this month’s edition of the Lancet Oncology shows that people with Huntington’s...

Scientists from the University of Illinois have found more evidence to suggest that human headlice and body lice may be...

Scientists at Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered evidence showing that the evolution of human brains may have...

In a paper in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, Juan Santos from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Centre...

Scientists have discovered the molecular switch that makes plants produce flowers rather than leaves...

A joint team of researchers from the UK and Canada have rewritten the rule book on defining different types of breast...

Researchers in the US have sequenced the genome of particular species of fungus that can turn cellulose into biofuel...

Writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, scientists in Australia have bred a new strain of salt-tolerant wheat, by...

Researchers studying hydra - tiny sea-creatures related to corals and jellyfish - have made the surprising discovery...

Astronomers have caught their best glimpse yet of a star being ripped to pieces by a supermassive black hole.

Cells capable of releasing insulin in response to a radio signal have been engineered by scientists in America.

Global warming could cause Spring to arrive earlier in future years.

Chronic cocaine use could accelerate brain aging.

Scientists have detected the parts of a pigeon's brain that enable it to use the Earth's magnetic field to...

One of archaeology's greatest questions, "did farming move across Europe with knowledge or people?" is...

The timings of supernova explosions close to Earth marry up with epochs in the planet's history when the diversity...